And goodbye to Hard Dean Anders. After many years of phonecalls, arguments and engineers we finally found that rare thing - a competant cable engineer. A chap who called to fix an unrelated problem with our cable box asked if there was anything else he could do while he was there. I explained that the only thing I wanted fixed and had been trying to get fixed for years was the aspect ration. Despite repeatd calls to Virgin (and its predecessors) widescreen footage was being piped through to us as if it were 4:3 footage. The result being that no matter what we did, we lost the sides of the image if it was widescreen. So many times I'd called the cable company or had someone come look and been told that it wasn't them, it must be the fault of our TV (and we've had three TVs in that time, all widescreen and the last two HD ready as well).

This chap simply went into the box's technical setup and changed the aspect ratio setting there.

Now when we watch widescreen SG1 episodes on Sky One we get to see the whole picture. No more chopped off the top of heads, no more missing bits from the sides, and most importantly, we now get to see Stargate starring Richard Dean Anderson, and not targat starring hard dean anders (possibly a good porn name should he ever want a career change).

Hurrah!

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